Introducing Cobra

[Ralph Shumaker]

Chuck Esterbrook wrote:
> On Jan 2, 2008 11:07 AM, David Brown <kplug at davidb.org> wrote:
>   
>> Please do not assume that tabs are 4 spaces.  You will offend people by
>> doing that.  If you want indentation to be hard tabs, please _enforce_
>> that, and disallow spaces.  This is actually Guido's recommendation for
>> Python code.  Most Unix-like editors are configured to display tabs as 8
>> spaces, and it is frustrating to keep changing that for different
>> languages.
>>     
>
> It's quite clear that I will offend people no matter what I do...
>   

And for that reason, you should do it the way that YOU prefer it.  For 
that reason, you should stick to your original plan of not allowing 
spaces for indentation.  Switching back to that stance may piss of more 
people than you would have had you never allowed it, but the time to 
cement anything in concrete is as close to the beginning as possible.  
That time is ever slipping away.  I don't know enough about it to 
comment about much else, but you had made a comment that you would not 
budge unless someone showed you good reason to allow spaces as indents.  
I submit that unless someone can show you *good* reason to leave it the 
way it is, you should go back to the way that you had so clearly wanted 
it.  But don't listen to me.  I don't have any clout to throw around on 
this.  This is just my opinion.  If I were writing a programming 
language to take care of problems and frustrations I have with others, I 
think I would want to stick to my guns and really do it the way I want 
it "unless someone can show me good reason to change it".  Take it for 
whatever it's worth.



-- 
Ralph

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